Shopping with the Mozilla Amazon Browser
Amazon.com is the most popular online retailer. While you can, of course, access the site with any browser, developer Fabio Serra has created Mozilla Amazon Browser (MAB), a browser-based application that relies on Mozilla's XML User Interface Language (XUL) technology to implement its graphical user interface.
With XUL, developers write a user interface in XML, using a set of well-defined and portable widgets. The resulting application will run in Mozilla-based browsers only (including Firefox and SeaMonkey), although preview releases of a standalone environment under the name of XULRunner are currently being developed. MAB's Web site claims that the latest version, 1.4.1, has been tested with Firefox versions 1.5 to 2.0, running on Windows XP, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X.
I installed the software to Swiftfox, which is a vanilla Firefox version optimized for a specific CPU. Like most Firefox extensions, installation involves downloading the XPI file (MAB-XPI for Firefox 2.0 or Firefox 1.0), allowing XPI installation for the site, and then restarting the browser. After that, MAB is accessible via the Tools menu. You have the choice of opening it in a new tab or new window; there's no way to open it in the current window.
MAB started quickly and provided me with a familiar interface, which is roughly divided into two columns: the left column shows an overview of the things you have searched for, while the right one provides details of a single item.
Solid help is available, giving you any information you might need, but most users will be able to use MAB right away without reading the help.
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